I sat in the women’s health clinic waiting room, clutching my appointment slip, when I heard a voice that made my stomach twist. My ex-husband, Chris, walked in with his very pregnant wife, Liza. He smirked as he spotted me.
“Well, look who it is,” he said loudly. “She gave me kids — something you couldn’t do in ten years.” He puffed out his chest and rested a hand on Liza’s belly, clearly expecting me to wilt under the weight of his words. Instead, I smiled.
“You assume I’m here for fertility testing,” I said calmly. “But here’s the truth — in our last year of marriage, I saw a specialist. Turns out, I was perfectly healthy.
If anyone should have been tested, it was you. Maybe the swimmers you bragged about were never in the pool.”
Chris’s smirk dissolved. Liza’s face drained of color.

